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When you think about cute and cuddly, there are probably two places your imagination doesn't go: external battery packs and Samsung. Well it seems that Samsung has indeed made the impossible possible, with its new Animal Edition batteries. External battery...

Sony is soon to completely shut down PlayStation Mobile and any games that were purchased and haven't yet been downloaded will be completely unavailable. The company had previously, in August last year, announced that it would no longer be supporting...

Practech has designed a smartwatch that it claims is based around the user and adapts to whatever situation you need it for. The company says the only thing you need to do is just be you and the smartwatch, dubbed UB, will take care of the rest. We got...

With LG lining up the LG G4 launch slightly later in the year than rivals Samsung and HTC, there's been less said about the forthcoming replacement flagship. But now an image claiming to be an early press render of the LG G4 has appeared online, along...

Movie remakes, they're all the rage at the moment. Take a perfectly good flick and recreate it, often scene for scene. Which is a bit like the Olympus Stylus SH-2 compact camera: it's a carbon copy of its SH-1 predecessor from last year, adding only a...

Around one-and-a-half million customers on O2's O2 Refresh tariff will have their bills drop by an average of £18 a month each as the network celebrates its second anniversary of the price plan by slashing fees. The customers who will be affected are...

It's been a couple of months since Apple introduced the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets, so that means it's time to look toward the future and speculate about what the company might have in store for the next iPhone. Will the next-generation iPhone be...

Finding your way from A to B while having some fun along the way could become a thing if the founders of navigation app Navmii have anything to do with it. The company is about to release a huge refresh to its driving app, including a rebranding from...

Apple will be adding pressure-sensing technology to the screen of its next iPhone, thought to be the iPhone 6S (not likely to be an iPhone 7 yet). The Wall Street Journal reports that the company will utilise the same Force Touch technology found in the...

It's safe to say most people aren't watching 4K content on 4K sets (let alone streaming it), but that hasn't stopped Netflix from looking ahead and preparing for the next pixel-packed phase. The streaming service made headlines last year when it released...

Just like last year, HTC is allegedly spinning off the HTC One M9 into a new One E9 variant. China's TENAA certification center recently revealed that the E9 is a 5.5-inch device (much like the 5-inch One M9). It doesn't have a curved metal back, but...

Months after introducing a redesigned Google Calendar app for Android devices, Google has launched the same app for iPhone. The full-fledge app has feature like events, assists, and schedule view, in which it can do things like automatically turn emails...

Christy Turlington Burns doesn't just use Apple Watch for running. She also uses it to send her husband doodles. When Apple announced new information about Apple Watch during its Spring Forward event in San Francisco yesterday, it also brought Burns on...

Shortly after launching Moto Maker for Moto 360 in the US, Motorola has brought the same tool to the UK alongside a new smartphone. Moto Maker was originally a simple website that let you change the design of your Moto X prior to checking out online,...

The fifth season of Game of Thrones will air simultaneously across the world...except in the UK. HBO has announced that it plans to simulcast the first episode on 12 April at 9pm EST through global partnership carriers and its own HBO-branded networks,...

If you never thought you'd get to go Back to the Future again, you certainly can't see through time as one last hoorah has arrived in Back in Time. The crowd-funded documentary is due for release in October and has a trailer out now. The Back in Time...

Google isn't backing down to Apple Watch. The company is planning to release an Android Wear software update that will bring Wi-Fi support to Android Wear watches, allowing ones with built-in Wi-Fi to use certain features, such as Google Now and notifications,...

Ever since the Lego Ideas (nee Cuusoo) program started there have been some amazing fan-made sets greenlit and sold as consumer products. Popular and cult movies have been represented and seen their properties made into official Lego sets, including...

SunFriend takes a different approach to wearable tech by helping you get the most out of the sun rather than monitor your activity, sleep or deliver smartphone notifications. The SunFriend features a sensor inside a rubber mould that measures UVA and...

The Solar Impulse 2 set off to fly the entire globe, without burning any fuel, from Abu Dhabi on 3 March. It's the world's first plane capable of flying day and night without using any fuel or stopping, thanks to solar power. The Solar Impulse 2 moves...

Vodafone has announced that it will be introducing both Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Wi-Fi calling for its customers from this summer. Until now Vodafone users had to use third party apps for calling over Wi-Fi. Once this comes as standard it will mean...

Sky Broadband will hand over details of its subscribers suspected of illegally downloading movies, it has confirmed. In a letter sent to users who might be affected, the company revealed that it has no option than to provide the names and addresses of...

LG has not said a lot about LG Wearable Platform. It made its debut on the LG Watch Urbane LTE, a device that was showcased at Mobile World Congress and is set for release in limited markets later in the year. In the official press release, LG says: "At...

Microsoft has rolled out its March system update to all Xbox Ones and Xbox gamers now have the ability to take in-game screenshots for the very first time. Taking screengrabs was one of the features PS4 owners had since the launch of their console and...

Pancake art is fast becoming a popular internet phenomenon that, until recently, was reserved for those with artistic flair and a steady hand. Now PancakeBot has arrived, anyone can get involved. PancakeBot is currently on Kickstarter where it's already...